Usually means: Dock for loading and unloading ships.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word wharf:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. wharf: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wharf: Merriam-Webster
  3. wharf: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wharf: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. wharf: Collins English Dictionary
  6. wharf: Vocabulary.com
  7. Wharf, wharf: Wordnik
  8. wharf: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. wharf: Wiktionary
  10. wharf: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. wharf: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. wharf: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. wharf: Dictionary.com
  14. wharf: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. wharf: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Wharf (Holdings), The Wharf (newspaper), Wharf (disambiguation), Wharf: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Wharf: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. wharf: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. wharf: Rhymezone
  20. wharf: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. wharf: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. wharf: FreeDictionary.org
  23. wharf: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. wharf: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. wharf: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. Wharf: Legal dictionary
  6. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wharf: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. The Wharf: A Seattle Lexicon
  2. Wharf: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See wharfed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (nautical) An artificial landing place for ships on a riverbank or shore.
noun:  The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea.
verb:  (transitive) To secure by a wharf.
verb:  (transitive) To place on a wharf.

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